Download a PalmDoc Version

I have an old Palm Pilot Professional; it's like the original beetle. It doesn't surf the 'net, or do the cool stuff the latest palms do, but I can keep my address book on it, and read PalmDoc files.

I came up with this script about 6 months ago when one of my subscribers, a "palm fanatic" requested a means to get stories from my site in PalmDoc format. (The most common means of reading documents on a palm)

The palmlib script for converting text to PalmDoc is not my own (I don't even understand it!), I just "tweaked" the original VB printthread.php to return a string instead of printing it out to the browser, then pass it through the "Palm Converter"

No PHP changes are required, just 3 template changes...

Included are 2 images:

- palmpilot.gif (The VB 2.0.1 default graphic theme)
- palmpilot_transparent.gif (A transparent .gif with a palm icon, to use on your own graphics)

See a working demo at http://www.coffeeintherain.com/forums, or see the attached screenshot.

(Download .zip: http://www.coffeeintherain.com/scripts/palm_hack.zip)

Enjoy!

[djr]

Hello CoffeeMugdude,

Just wanted to tell you that I really love this hack! I'm the chairman of the Dutch Palm User Group (http://www.palmclub.nl and http://www.pdaclub.nl/forums - different server to spread bandwidth) and this hack comes in really handy when users want to preserve tips, nice utils or whatever comes around in our threads.
Very nice documentation and overall a winner!

Kind regards,
Jean-Paul Horn

[djr]

As the Coffee In The Rain site is down, and you could only download the attachment at the site itself, I hereby resubmit it to the community.

This is not my hack!

I'm just a happy user of this hack and I think it could be usefull to others, so here you go.

[slideboxer]

Okay, there's a typo in the install instructions that caused me some probs

for palmthread.php the instructions say

PHP Code:

eval("\$palmbits .= \"".gettemplate("palmthreadbit")."\";"); 


change palmthreadbit to palmthread_bit to match the template change given earlier in the instructions.

Things work great now, though. My users love it.

[mashby]

Just installed this hack and it's a FANTASTIC one at that! It is the perfect hack for my new board.

Thanks DJR for posting the hack here since coffeeintherain is down.

The only thing that I've noticed is that it doesn't work with the Opera browser. I've noticed that with other attachement style links, so I don't think it's a problem with the hack per se, just more with how Opera handles certain links. It works just fine in other browsers.

[dogbomb]

:bump: this hack is no longer there. it seems the site it was hosted at has shut down

[djr]

Hmmmm... wake up and smell the coffee :-)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...151#post216151

- djr

[Jared Press]

I tried setting this up but it came back with a safe made restriction error. Is there a way around this problem?

[Chris M]

Turn of safe mode in your vBulletin options...

Nice hack

Satan

[Jared Press]

Tried that but my server is runing in safe mode so I guess it will have no effect?

[djr]

@ Jared: Leave 'Safe mode ON' in vB and then change this line in palmlib.php:

$tempfile = tempnam("palm", "palm");

into this:

$tempfile = tempnam("images/tmp", "palm");

By hardcoding the path the hack should work. It's working at our board and we're also running vB in safe mode.

Remember: the tmp directory should be world-writable, e.g. chmod to 777!!!

Good luck,
- djr